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MARGAO: In a battle of the bottom placed teams, Velsao Sports & Cultural Club walked away with three points against Corps of Signals following their 3-2 in the Goa Football Association’s Goa Professional League, played at 3MTR ground, Navelim, on Tuesday.
Shubham Rao Dessai (38’), Joseph Pereira (44’) and Rohan Kambli (45+1) scored for Velsao while Signals netted through Pawan Thakur (49’) and Huidrom Singh (83’).
By virtue of this win, Velsao SCC moved on to seven points from ten games, on level with Corps of Signals, however with a superior head-to-head record Velsao leapfrogged Signals. Signals now are at the bottom with similar points having played a game less than their opponents.
After playing end-to-end football, Velsao finally opened the scoring in the 38th minute through Shubham Rao who scored after capitalising on a poor pass from the rival goalkeeper and scored to give his side the lead.
Velsao who were pressing in search of goals scored their second in the 44th minute through skipper Joseph who scored from the box.
There was still time for another goal as Velsao SCC were awarded a penalty after Shubham was tipped in the box and the referee made no hesitation to point towards the penalty spot.
Rohan Kambli stepped over and coolly converted from the spot. The winners were three goals up at the break.
Crossing over, Signals did try to get in the game and managed to pull a goal back through Pawan Thakur who headed in a cross from the flank.
Signals managed to score one more goal in the final 10 minutes of the game through Huidrom. However they fell short of the equalising goal.
